skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was explaining the DNS system and load balancing today and I kind of mixed it all up based on this wonderful link. Thanks, I will share this out with that person to undo the damage I might have done.
Great morally charged argument, but I am not sure how you expect content creators to monetize.
Why Panelbear Didn't Open-Source Its Second SaaS
> "Google isn't"

Did you accidently clip the rest of your message?
Yes. But that was a temporary, exceptional situation of border checks all over Europe.
I disagree. I loved Cameron's evolution, she really matured. And from season 2 onwards (maybe even after the first half of S01) they seemed to have a better grasp on who the characters were and what stories to tell. Cameron and Donna's relationship especially was simply beautifully told.
Load balancing as a strategy is used in far more than just web-applications!

This article only discusses web-based load balancing, which is absolutely important, but doesn't discuss supercomputer scheduling load-balancing. Its arguably a different subject... but the concept is the same.

When you have 4000 nodes on a supercomputer, how do you distribute the problem such that all the nodes have something to do? Supercomputer problems are sometimes predictable (ie: matrix-multiplications), and you can sometimes "perfectly load balance without communication".

But in the case of web-applications, there's probably no way to really predict the "cost of performance" before you start processing the service request (what if its a Facebook request to a really old photograph? Facebook may have to pull it out of long-term storage before it can service that request. There's no real way to know at the load-balancer whether a picture-request would be in the cache or not... at least, not before you process the request to begin with!)

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In any case, I think adding "Predict the computational cost, calculate the costs you distributed to different nodes, and then distribute the new load to the node with lowest computational cost given so far" is a good method that works in some applications. (All blocks in a dense matrix multiplication have the same cost, so just keep passing out subblocks to all nodes as you're working on the problem)
Silicon Valley Workers Have Had Enough
"Even if the social network finds a hosting provider, setting up all the different services it needs could be prohibitively slow, or even impossible. For all the talk of hybrid and edge computing, hyperscale cloud still has some hard to beat advantages for organizations with small infrastructure teams and not much capital expenditure budget who need to build large services quickly."
I love that some of the most-sensitive information users are the ones hanging on to a completely-unsecured transmission method. Sure, tell me again about all those HIPAA and SOX requirements when we still have fax machines.
I wonder if Stephen King's use of "jaunt" is an homage to The Stars My Destination?
I think the question is the maximum possible range. If it requires something that's a few centimeters (or less) away from the skull, then a government would either have to force you / make you agree to a scan, or would have to tap data generated by existing consumer devices (like they currently often do with phones/computers).

Is it theoretically plausible that this activity could be read from many feet away, or further?
I'm conflicted about this move. I was listening to Reply All the other day and they mentioned platform diversity and I've seen a number of discussions on here around platform diversity. Twitters ability to buy a feature like this makes it harder to compete with. It benefits writers in a way that it adds in-demand functionality to an existing popular platform but also harms writers and consumers because of the rising demand of platform diversity.
For some reason its really bothering me that an article about an East Coast outage used a picture of the Version store on Market St in San Francisco.
that's totally fine. I prefer a world without advertisement, ideally. I disagree with you that there is no spectrum of ad ethics.

And while you are not "trying" to manipulate anyone (maybe), I also disagree that you are not effectively influencing your reader thoughts to some degree.

The analogy I made is: even an internet comment does, on a smaller scale, less maliciously, use persuasion techniques: should we get rid of discussion forums too? I don't think so, and while an ad-less world seems like a nice experiment, sounds pretty unrealistic, regulating (outlawing would be nice) tracking in ads? More realistic and fixing 80% of what's wrong with 20% of the effort if you ask me
That's progress.

I've previously suggested that operating systems should have stronger file integrity guarantees. "Unit" files (rewriting replaces the whole file atomically, no reader ever sees a partially written file). That's the default. "Log" files (always end at a clean end point, don't tail off into junk). "Temp" files (disappear on reboot). And, for databases, "Managed" files.

Managed files have more I/O functions. In particular, you get two completion events on writes - "copy complete" (the caller can reuse the buffer) and "safely stored" (the data has reached its final resting place, all links are complete, etc.). Programs like databases would use that. Those are the semantics databases want, and struggle to get by flushing, waiting, and various workarounds.

When I mention this, what usually happens is that people get lost in complicated workarounds for simulating unit files. Different approaches are needed for Linux, Windows, NTFS, and various VM systems. This should Just Work.

This isn't my invention; it's from Popek's kernel in 1985 at UCLA, later seen as UCLA-Locus and as an IBM product. They had explicit commit and revert functions for file systems. I'd suggest having the default be commit on normal close or normal program exit, but if the program aborts or crashes or is killed, unit files don't commit and remain unchanged.
Didn't know about this, it looks like you can still download a binary. Is it just not actively maintained or does it no longer work with Github at all?

Edit: Ah checked it out, it is indeed closed. Would people want to see a successor to something like this?
I love these posts. They remind me that there are places in the world where technology is moving forward. Where we live in Tennessee I have to run 2 internet connections to be able to have a service when I need it. 3gb DSL and a 5gb satellite connection. The sat connection has the additional bonus of being capped at 150Gb per month. All these new streaming services may as well not even exist for those of us in rural areas.
I'm not sure what you are saying. Ted Cruz has a Harvard law degree but thinks, well who really knows. Being educated didn't stop millions of college graduates from believing that Dominion voting machines "flipped" votes to Biden or that tractor trailers full of "Biden" votes were dropped off but only in the states that Trump had more in person votes initially because the US Mail bad or fraud. I saw people reposting stuff on FB that X state had more votes than registered voters or even citizens but if you did a single Google, you would see that it was for the population of state X in 1980 or some shit. How does this happen in a world with Coursea?
By any reasonable definition of learning, the mouse adapts to a new situation.
Good luck with that, since everyone is pushing for censorship these days.

I remember this idea gained traction when there was the refugee crisis in Europe (I think 2014 or so) and European politicians (led by Merkel) were pushing for more Facebook censorship. The idea of more censorship was also popular among the citizens. However, it was mostly a European thing, although Facebook did comply to an extent. Then Donald fucking Trump happened. Now Americans were the ones who started pushing for censorship, even more strongly.

This is way beyond Facebook banning someone in bad faith, if Facebook has to censor a wide range of things, this can only be through automated systems due to the massive scale, and these systems will inevitably fuck up more and more as we add more things which they are supposed to censor. It is literally an unavoidable outcome even without bad faith. The kind of censorship people expect today just cannot work on a Facebook scale unless we accept that people will get banned unfairly all the time.
Verizon Internet Outage Disrupts Usage in Northeast
Linux on the "fleet" desktop almost happened (some companies and schools do it), but then webapps got big and ChromeOS swept in. Now the only reason to make a non-ChromeOS "webtop" fleet is if your organization is explicitly Google-free for competitive/legal/political reasons.
umatrix is built into ublock origin now, just enable advanced mode in ublock.
Crystal 0.36.0 Released
Does anyone at Google Cloud work on startups?
... if it's not clear, the enabling technology here is the wonderful rclone[1] tool which rsync.net has built into the platform.

So, in the same way that you can run 'git' commands over SSH:

ssh user@rsync.net "git clone git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git freebsd"

... you can now, also, run 'rclone' over SSH:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:/some/bucket gdrive:/blah

[1] https://rclone.org/
You can just put that there - and then you hope that user agents implement this - or you can use interledger.
I think people would rather prefer to take a pill than give themselves an injection. It doesn’t matter if it’s “easy” or not. There’s the “ick” or “ahhh needle” or “breaking skin” factor at play.

Even if you self-inject and find it easy, I’m sure you’re not saying it’s easier and less of a hassle than taking a pill lmao.
>There is a fiber cut in Brooklyn. We have no ETR, as of yet.

A fiber cut auto heals automatically via bgp. Absolutely no truth in this claim from verizon.

Meanwhile google, zoom, aws, and microsoft went down?

There isn't any shared datacenters here. There's at least 3 distinct datacenters.

So what's the truth? what actually went down?
> The demise of checks is greatly exaggerated.

That varies a lot by jurisdiction. I'm 50 and I haven't written a single check in my entire life. (Sweden.)
1952. After 70 years, millions of people, and billions of dollars, it makes sense that our algorithms are more sophisticated and our definitions more precise.
That form factor running clean, stock Android with cellular connection, phone calls and all.

Graphic linux running alongside with simple hotkey screen switch. Linux doesn't have to be integrated with Android at all other than being provided cellular data and access to the I/O devices.

That way you get the best of both worlds. Android apps, but with a real keyboard for all that text input. And push a button and you have an always on, always interconnected pocket Linux machine. This respects that 99% of the use would be as a bulky smartphone, but when it comes to that 1% - which for me mostly translates to ssh-ing somewhere, be it via Termux or Connectbot - that keyboard sure would be handy.
Yev from Backblaze here -> rest assured that we do read what you're writing on these posts and they've spurred some internal process discussions. I believe the bugs you mentioned were cleared/fixed with version 7.0.0.439 which was released in Q1 of 2020. We did leave HackerOne and switched over to BugCrowd to handle our bug program. It's private at the moment, but easy enough to get invited (by emailing bounty@backblaze.com). While we spin that program up (it's a new vendor for us) we may stay private, but hopefully that's not a permanent state.

Edit -> I just noticed the Daniel Stenberg libcurl citation. Oof, yea that certainly a whiff on our end. Luckily though we were able to make up for it (he has a write-up here: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/01/14/backblazed/).
I'm using Emby; what's the difference with Jellyfin?

I dropped Plex because its quality was getting lower and lower, especially chromecast-wise.
Or to approach the same issue from the other direction: Does public funding for research of this type self-sabotage, if it enables pharmaceutical companies to set pricing at a level which meaningfully limits the use of the results of that research?
> it is not available for servers running on Linux, NAS devices, or NVIDIA SHIELD

I hope this changes soon, I'm having a hard time figuring out how they launched with this. I know pulls aren't indicative of total users but: https://fleet.linuxserver.io/image?name=linuxserver/plex
GitLab Team Member here. The pricing is the same for both our SaaS and self-managed products - and the tiers are now identical as well.
Study sheds light on the microbial life of sourdough
A lot of animals are way better at eating greens than we are, I would not follow their lead.

I am pretty sure besides migrating, we eat the leaves our parents eat, all the way back too...well..."other animals".
Wink's home automation service has been down for a whole day
Why online businesses fail-Biznessvibes
When I went from using a Toshiba netbook to an original iPad. That thing was so sweet when I first got it. The whole experience was top notch and one of my first touch screens.
IoT Ensemble: Your Virtual IoT Developer
Mostly from gwern. He's an endless source of ideas.

Ended up being featured in a few articles.

- https://www.newsweek.com/openai-text-generator-gpt-2-video-g...

- https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/10/gpt2_chess/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479257

You can join the ML discord server here (https://github.com/shawwn/tpunicorn#ml-community) if you're looking to toss around ideas for things to do.
Everything has more "individuals" now, since everyone can get a soapbox/megaphone, from YouTube to GitHub to Twitter to all the rest.

And it's possible to monetize that work now, with ads and micro-patrons, which is a huge drain on free and open source, mitigated only (partially) by the increased ability for open sourcerers to collaborate and that nowadays we're drowing in software and don't really need much more new software.

You don't need to join a team to get noticed (and on the ugly side, even though having a team helps, it's better for the Personal Brand to make that team invisible)
> But I mean our phones are already more cyberpunk than Neuromancer's decks in all but aesthetics.

They still don't have the neural interface. Although, all things considered, that might be a feature. I would really hate for some piece of ransomware to scramble my childhood memories...
> We’ve also partnered with the most hallowed name in retro games: Atari.

Hilarious.

Joking aside, it's cool that's they're actually doing this legitimately, but you can already buy Atari collections on every platform imaginable. That doesn't feel like much of a draw.
I agree. In my experience maintaining, the work validating a PR is substantially more than writing the initial code as well. There is also a significant maintenance cost that falls on the maintainer after the code has shipped.

In other words, even if your contribution is perfect, it's still probably putting more work on the maintainer than you did yourself.
And I am stuck in an old Firefox version before they cracked down extensions.
GitLab Team Member here. If you could reach out to your account team, that would be great. We’d love to hear your thoughts and have an opportunity to understand what is valuable to you. We realize that this is a significant change for Starter/Bronze users, and we want to make sure we can provide you with the best possible service through the transition. We’re also offering a free upgrade to Premium for the first 25 users, which may help you get a better sense of Premium's value for your team.
I'm trying to move away from bit bucket but now the price is again more and this is difficult to sell.
This is a pretty decent social engineering attack, I'm actually kind of impressed at the long-con set up. Shows that nearly anyone can be compromised merely through dedicated social engineering.
A Statement from Arnold Ventures About Aerial Investigative Research
> Why on earth am I getting a cookie dialogue [...]

Use NoScript. There is simply no reason for pages like that to [attempt to] stuff so many cookies and scripts for what is a simple page of static content.
> And ultimately, the objections in 2000 changed the overall result of the election.

There weren’t any objections even technically filed. There were attempts to offer objections that didn’t meet the legal standard, which were ruled out of order.

If you mean the recount and associated lawsuits, then, no, that didn’t either. Bush won both before and after that.

Now, if you slice apart some subset of the recount/lawsuit process apart from others, you can say that, but that’s a rather artificial definition, and, anyway, there is a difference between lawsuits over who should be certified in a state and throwing out a state’s electoral votes in Congress.
When to Transition from Monolith to Microservices?
So they can retarget you as a potential customer.

I totally get your annoyance, but they probably do mostly online marketing, so it makes sense for them.
>The FCC may have to establish standards to prevent over-centralization.

Bwahahahahaha. Sorry, but that's like expecting the FCC to do something that would benefit US citizens vs US corporations. I think we've seen that's just not something they are interested in doing. Maybe a new administration will put as the head of the FCC someone that is "good of citizens" minded and uses a normal size coffee cup, but I'm not holding my breath for anything other than pro-corp rulings from the FCC
> My understanding is the funding for the trials was partly from NIAID.

I have no particular insight into the pricing of this drug, but in general, NIAID funding doesn't get anywhere close to the level of investment needed to bring a drug to market (NIAID's total budget is something like $5Bn. A single drug can easily require that much money to go to market).

Moreover, it isn't a bright-line distinction between public and private funding: if a novel drug is developed (entirely privately) against a target for which academic researchers once received public funds, does it count as public funding? There's a huge gray area in between. Nearly all drugs can be characterized as "publicly funded", if you look hard enough.

Rules like this sound great, but in practice, they'll lead to perverse incentives (like drug companies completely avoiding targets from the academic world, in the previous example). Nobody rational wants to spend billions of dollars doing late-stage development and clinical trials to be torpedoed by a researcher who took a small amount public funding decades prior.
Lunatic v0.3 Released
I'm under the impression that GitHub Enterprise's on prem ci/cd pipelines isnt available yet
Same here except I have the Oculus Quest which I purchased for our family for Christmas. Just the Amazon Prime app and Netflix app were reason enough to buy it for the different viewing experience it provides during these times of spending so much time inside of the house. It really feels like getting out of the house when you watch an Amazon Prime show in a large theatre with a cinematic screen.
Google is shutting down development of Tilt Brush VR and open sourcing it
> So even in a rich country, this is like 50% more than the income of a typical person.

Generic versions of expensive American drugs tend to be released by Indian pharmaceutical companies into developing countries after a while.
Well that symmetric gigabit Google Fiber gave me isn’t gonna waste itself!
Completely agree. The fantasy/dream is productivity on the go. But in reality we are productive full size keyboard. Not that you can never become productive on one of these devices but it will take a certain amount of time and one should consider the availability/discontinuation of these devices since they are so niche.

That being said, I am still going to order a PinePhone with the hope that the Psion-like keyboard will make me productive :D
Sparkle: A software update framework for macOS
It used to be you could email a patch to someone and that patch would get reviewed and committed.

Since then there has sprung up a fetish for bureaucratic process, and tooling has arisen to foster that, such that the barrier to entry is significantly higher now than it was in the 90s. All you needed was a text editor and an email account. Now you need accounts on whatever code forge is involved, and you didn't write enough unit tests, and you failed to properly format your pull request, and what do you mean you're not an expert in whatever version control we've adopted? This pull request sat in an open state because you didn't tag it appropriately. The CI system was updated and your code wasn't covered in the automated integration test, please resubmit after making minor punctuation changes in a metadata file.

Over time, this stuff filters out contributors and leaves a core of people who are comfortable with the structure of the engineering process for that specific project. It's not a bad thing that engineering standards are higher, but it's no longer a world of people 'scratching an itch' -- there's yak shaving to be done, and the number of people willing to shave that yak has always been smaller than the number of people who are not.

I don't think the author is right about things having been harder in the old days led to a higher proportion of the internet being qualified to contribute. I think it's much harder now to patch software upstream than it ever has been.
> But turns out, a hierarchical structure can NOT correctly represent some movement patterns in the real world, like branches on a tree moving or overhead cables.

Could you expand a bit on this? Do you mean that it might miss small fast moving objects due to losing fidelity at the coarse resolutions. Or is there actually some sort of movement that the hierarchical structure can't interpret.
They're not trying to sell you RHEL, they're converting you from someone who is consuming downstream-of-RHEL tried-and-tested product into someone who is participating in RHEL beta testing on production infra. Big difference, don'tchaknow.

Of course, the reason you chose CentOS is because you wanted tried-and-tested. And, if that's really what you're after, c'mon over here, I have some RHEL to sell you.
Ah...I'd forgotten about the ones that always show the time regardless of whether or not it has been set. I can see how that would get annoying.

I guess I've been lucky in that all the microwaves I've had over the last couple of decades, and the ones we had at work, do not show the time unless you've set it. My current one, which has 7 segment LEDs for the time digits, blanks all the digits, leaving just the colons. My prior one showed "--:--" if time was not set. The one before that had a graphical display and just showed blank where the time would normally go.
When I bought a home, I limited my searches to ones that had symmetric fiber connections.
Thanks, I will see if I can get ahold of the list.

However, I would still need a second list of valid addresses for each person to create a true validation.